Formula Boinc 2016

PDW · 21 Sep 2016 at 20:46

Bowmore said:
Let's just say there is a team to your East that got upset at TSBT during a challenge and called them cheaters. And then for several challenges after that they kept calling them cheaters in the shout box.

Ah, so that was you, I wondered who everybody was talking about

I had a Commodore 64 that came after the ZX ... I guess I should have kept it

My apologies, I didn't mean to mock you for your lack of having a decent computer

scole250 · 21 Sep 2016 at 20:54

PDW said:
I tried to get some but was told no tasks are available, looks like someone has already had their fill

I think they still have work. It's still downloading work to me. I don't really want it. I've had my fill. I just don't want the 2nd place team to get it.

PDW · 21 Sep 2016 at 21:14

scole250 said:
I think they still have work. It's still downloading work to me. I don't really want it. I've had my fill. I just don't want the 2nd place team to get it.

Nope, still telling me no tasks are available for Garli, doesn't look they are getting much work either. So take the lot in case you miss the boat next time round.

Bowmore · 22 Sep 2016 at 01:00

PDW said:
My apologies, I didn't mean to mock you for your lack of having a decent computer

Speaking of decent computers, last year you guys had pictures of a monster system (4 Xeon E7s IIRC) that had water cooling. Did that thing ever take flight?

ozaudio · 22 Sep 2016 at 09:14

that would be one of BaBa's many systems. yes he has it running, as to weather its running at present I don't know

chris182008 · 23 Sep 2016 at 13:17

Back from my world tour

got 128kb of memory in the ZX now so that can be turned on whenever it's needed

ozaudio · 23 Sep 2016 at 15:51

seems a team rally is needed to blast enigma and csg, the one saving sole could be Ba but I think hes upto his shoulders in work at the moment.

Biffa · 23 Sep 2016 at 17:29

I'm limited to OSX for CPU projects and not many fit the bill

ozaudio · 23 Sep 2016 at 17:43

virtual machine and Linux FTW

it cuts 10 - 15 mins per unit of my run time on CSG

scole250 · 23 Sep 2016 at 19:53

Don't worry guys. We're going to get no closer than 200k on CSG and Enigma then back off. We just want as much buffer as possible from the teams behind us on those projects. That's the plan anyway.

hanluc · 23 Sep 2016 at 20:17

scole250 said:
Don't worry guys. We're going to get no closer than 200k on CSG and Enigma then back off. We just want as much buffer as possible from the teams behind us on those projects. That's the plan anyway.

Well I don't how the rest of the guys feel, but I'd much prefer comming 2nd than 1st if you guys let us win. I say go for it, add some excitement to the last two months of the comptetion.
(As long as the whole of susa don't turn up

)

Bowmore · 23 Sep 2016 at 22:12

hanluc said:
Well I don't how the rest of the guys feel, but I'd much prefer comming 2nd than 1st if you guys let us win. I say go for it, add some excitement to the last two months of the comptetion.
(As long as the whole of susa don't turn up )

As I told PDW earlier, there is a team that did some nasty things and sometimes ones actions have consequences.

This is one of those times.

BTW, Big Al and I have dual citizenship, we are officially members of 2 teams. Sometimes we crunch for 1 team and sometimes we crunch for the other. Sometimes we even crunch for both at the same time

We've accomplished what we set out to do, get our TSBT team into 2nd, and we will hold that position. Going after the top spot would be a exercise in futility and only tried by people with delusions of grandeur. I may be old, but I'm not delusional ... yet.

scole250 · 25 Sep 2016 at 02:32

Well guys, there's only a few projects with work that TSBT has a chance to gain any points on. Enigma is a project we can both pick up a few points on and it's not going to make much difference between the our teams in 1st and 2nd place. So how about an Enigma throw down? If you are up for it,we can schedule a throw down. Give each team time to regroup. What say yea?

hanluc · 25 Sep 2016 at 22:19

scole250 said:
Well guys, there's only a few projects with work that TSBT has a chance to gain any points on. Enigma is a project we can both pick up a few points on and it's not going to make much difference between the our teams in 1st and 2nd place. So how about an Enigma throw down? If you are up for it,we can schedule a throw down. Give each team to regroup. What say yea?

Well as I said on your forums, I'm up for it, though it doesn't look like it will be much of a contest on current form. However if we do, let's not do it in Nov because I believe it would be no fun being in division 1 next season for either of us if we ended up there.

Bowmore · 26 Sep 2016 at 00:44

Rule 8 of FB states there are 3 divisions that are determined by RAC. Unless your average RAC for the month of Nov is over 10M then you will remain a Div 2 team.

The reason the the team who won Div 2 last got moved up is because their RAC was over 10M/day.

hanluc · 26 Sep 2016 at 14:34

Bowmore said:
Rule 8 of FB states there are 3 divisions that are determined by RAC. Unless your average RAC for the month of Nov is over 10M then you will remain a Div 2 team.

The reason the the team who won Div 2 last got moved up is because their RAC was over 10M/day.

Yes I was aware of that, perhaps I'm just being pararnoid

Doesn't take much work on a high scoring GPU project to push over that limit.

Not looking like there's much enthusiasm here for an Enigma challenge

Bowmore · 26 Sep 2016 at 17:58

hanluc said:
Yes I was aware of that, perhaps I'm just being pararnoid Doesn't take much work on a high scoring GPU project to push over that limit.

Not looking like there's much enthusiasm here for an Enigma challenge

Now there is an idea ... starting Nov 1 we'll jump on the highest paying GPU project we can find and run it for you guys

Well if folks don't want to have a little team-to-team challenge then that's okay. We can just continue on the same boring way till the end of FB.

scole250 · 26 Sep 2016 at 23:19

And even though Bowmore has been stuck in a OCD trance on Enigma we plan to toss a bucket of water on him before we pass OcUK and then follow you guys past HP and TSC Russia, just don't let up

Coleslaw · 28 Sep 2016 at 22:06

Yeah...a hand full of high end GPU's at Collatz will easily push you to that 10 million RAC. So, you really do have to plan accordingly if you don't want bumped up to the big boys... I had mentioned this to my team in the past. One of the safest projects would be SETI considering a lot of the work units may sit pending for a few months and they aren't a high scoring project.

Here is an example of one host from a teammate doing ~2.5 million PPD http://boincstats.com/en/stats/86/host/list/0/0/173981/1 or http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/show_host_detail.php?hostid=689096

Also, keep in mind many teams may be doing the WCG birthday challenge in November. WCG is a low scoring project.

Jumper118 · 16 Oct 2016 at 22:07

i am running my dual xeons on milky way@home

for some reason it only putting my cpu at 56% usage max. also i have 32gb of ram and its only using 3gb.

are there any project better for this setup or is this good?